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Mar. 29th, 2004 04:36 pmHm. This past couple of weeks, I've run into several different occurrences of the same thing, both on LJ and on other journal systems. Not naming names, not from a desire to anonymize a thing, but because this is so bloody common as to be worthy of a general observation, and because the disagreement that led to this thought has been all cleared up.
Anyway, here's the basic order of events:
1) Someone posts something into a journal.
2) People comment on it, either in the comments area or in their own journals.
3) Original poster claims that nobody has the right to air their opinions on the original poster's thoughts because it's a journal.
Er, well, it's a journal, technically, but it's a publicly available post that isn't friends-locked or made private, and the comments aren't screened, friends-locked, or disabled. So why on earth is anyone publicly posting their thoughts and then getting angry when the public has -- the horror! -- an opinion? Most journal sites offer plenty of ways to lock posts down with varying degrees of security: for heaven's sake, utilize them if you consider your thoughts private! Not to do so is to air your thoughts in a public forum -- and that is what LiveJournal, Blogger, Movable Type, Diaryland, Xanga, Journalfen, DeadJournal and the like are. To consider them private unless you've put security measures into effect is to be deluding yourself.
Please note: this is a publicly available post with no restrictions or screening upon comments. Therefore, it is open for and inviting of such. Any thoughts, either of you who read my journal?
P.S. As for AggieCon: not bad, guys, although there are still some questions and observations I have on its running and how it was handled. But as I said in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
firnymph's journal, it's in the parental-mode of looking at a test that was graded a 94 and saying "OK, it's an A, but what happened to the other six points?" I had a good time, and I saw others having a good time.
P.P.S. Did the FACT/SA Worldcon people get thanked publicly in any way for their contribution to the con?
Anyway, here's the basic order of events:
1) Someone posts something into a journal.
2) People comment on it, either in the comments area or in their own journals.
3) Original poster claims that nobody has the right to air their opinions on the original poster's thoughts because it's a journal.
Er, well, it's a journal, technically, but it's a publicly available post that isn't friends-locked or made private, and the comments aren't screened, friends-locked, or disabled. So why on earth is anyone publicly posting their thoughts and then getting angry when the public has -- the horror! -- an opinion? Most journal sites offer plenty of ways to lock posts down with varying degrees of security: for heaven's sake, utilize them if you consider your thoughts private! Not to do so is to air your thoughts in a public forum -- and that is what LiveJournal, Blogger, Movable Type, Diaryland, Xanga, Journalfen, DeadJournal and the like are. To consider them private unless you've put security measures into effect is to be deluding yourself.
Please note: this is a publicly available post with no restrictions or screening upon comments. Therefore, it is open for and inviting of such. Any thoughts, either of you who read my journal?
P.S. As for AggieCon: not bad, guys, although there are still some questions and observations I have on its running and how it was handled. But as I said in
firnymph's journal, it's in the parental-mode of looking at a test that was graded a 94 and saying "OK, it's an A, but what happened to the other six points?" I had a good time, and I saw others having a good time.P.P.S. Did the FACT/SA Worldcon people get thanked publicly in any way for their contribution to the con?
